Rein-holder



(No Model.)

N. M. DAVIS.

REIN HOLDER.

No. 606,521. Patented June 28, 1898.

signed to prevent the reins from falling un- 1 indicates one of the frame-bars of the veing its upper end slit, as indicated at 9, and

NlTED rains- A-rent REIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,521, dated June 28, 1898. Application filed September 8,1897. Serial No. 650,929. (No niodeld To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN M. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ferguson, in the county of Marshall and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Lamp and Rein Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a novel carriagelamp and rein holder, and has for its object the production of a simple attachment for vehicles designed to adjustably sustain a lamp where it will throw the light in front of the horses and provided with a rein-holder deder thetail of the animal or under the singletree. To the accomplishment of this object the invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement of parts,,as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device complete, showing it attached to a convenient part of the vehicle, which is broken away. Fig. 2 is a view taken at right angles to Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the reinholder detached.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings,

hicle, to which is attached, as by straps 3, having their lower ends united by tie-bars 4:, the angular base 5 of a standard 6, The standard is preferably composed of telescopic sections 7 and 8, the former being a hollow tube extending upwardly from the base 5 and hav-- provided with a clamping-collar 10, designed to clamp the upperend of the section 7 through the medium of an adjustment or clamping screw 11 to adjustably support the upper or smaller section 8,which is longitudinally movable within the section '7. By the adjustment of the screw 11 it will be seen that the upper standardsection 8 may be elevated or depressed and secured in its adjusted position or may be entirely removed.

12 indicates a lamp-support consisting of a pair of springs 13, carried by a split collar 14, which is secured at any desired point upon the standard or preferably at its upper end by clamping-screws 15, a lamp 16 being carried by the support at the upper ends of the springs 13 and designed to throw the light ahead of the horses. j

17 indicates the rein-holder, consisting of a hollow ball 18, provided with diametrically opposite openings 19 for the reception of the section 8, and slit, as indicated at 20,'-to render the ball sufficiently yielding or resilient to enable it to beadjusted upon the standard and clamped by a clamping-screw 21, passing through a pair of cars 22, projecting from the ball 18 upon the opposite sides of the slit 20. Any suitable means for holding the reins may be provided upon the ball; but this mechanism preferably consists of a pair of oppositelyextending arms 23', provided with terminal rings 24, preferably formed from coiled wire and having openings 25, through which the reins may be passed into the rings. The reinholder may be adjusted upon the standard to the desired height, and the section 8 may be adjusted with respect to the section 7 in order to elevate the lamp to the proper point, the entire device being secured to a convenient part of the vehicle, preferably immediately in front of the dashboard, and serving when in place to constitute a simple and readilyadjustable support for the lamp and an ingenious device for holding the reins out of the way of the horses tail and to prevent them from catching under the sin gletree when slack. I I

\Vhile the present embodiment of my in vention appears, however, to be preferable, I do not desire to limit myself to the structural details illustrated and described, but reserve the right to. change, vary, or modify them at will within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- In a rein-support, a standard, in combination with a rein-holder proper comprising a hollow resilient metal ball capable of longi tudinal adjustment on the standard, and having diametrically opposite openings to receive the standard, means for securing said ball at In testimony whereof I have signed this any height on the standard, diametrically opspecification in the presence of two snbscrib- 1o posite horizontal arms projecting from said ing witnesses. ball, and split rings at the extremities of said arms forming guides and supports for the reins, each ring consisting of coils capable WVitnesses: of springing apart to admit one of the reins, ANTHONY O. DALY, substantially as described. THOS. CLEGG.

NATHAN MLDAVI-S. 

